How to Actually Listen to Your Intuition

So many naturally intuitive people know they get solid information from their intuition. They even notice it when it shows up, but then they either don’t act on it or they push it away. Why? Because they don’t trust it. Hundreds of intuitive people (INFJ personality types and INFP personality types) have this problem. They get a feeling about something. They just “know” what is going to happen. They might see an image in their mind, have a vivid dream, or hear their inner voice warning them about something. Many times, the intuition gets louder when they ignore it, but still, the person pushes it away.

The big reason we do this is because of anxiety. Most people in society are in a constant state of anxiety. High anxiety and anxiety disorder are so prevalent that, for many people, it feels like a normal condition. And so, most of us make decisions from a place of anxiety. When we live from a place of anxiety, we habitually overthink things and want to know for certain if something will work, before we do it. We also want lots and lots of reassurance, and it’s still not enough. We tend to look outside of ourselves for approval. We may even get more deeply entrenched in the left brain—logic, reason, being rational—and cut ourselves off from the right brain—the place where we can access intuition.

So, how do we actually start listening to our intuition? Tune into the video to learn how to do this, and start listening to your own intuition and the messages it is trying to send you.

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[hardeepsinghSurrey]

One of my friends from India can tell what will happen within the next 2 weeks. When there were no mobile phones and the internet, he could see and listen all over the world. Police tried to put him in jail, but each time the police failed to catch him. Finally, the police accepted to let him go. Now, he is spending his life in meditation.

[ivanaveltmeyer]

Where can I meet another infj? I’m feeling lonely.

[sidharthchand]

When I get an intuitive hit, I need to act, not ponder or I’ll forget about it. And write it down.

[AndrewSeaton]

Hi Lauren. In my view, intuition and anxiety come from two different dimensions of our selves. The ego, or conceptual (constructed and false) sense of self, with all its conditioned notions of what's good and bad, right and wrong, is the source of any anxiety we feel. Through our dominant function of Introverted Intuition, we INFJs are blessed with easier access than other types to the beingness, insight and guidance that can bubble up from the inner truth of who we are, what Jung referred to as the "transcendent function". In my view, perhaps the most essential way to open and respond to our intuition is to question the truth of thoughts and anxieties that arise from the conditioned mind, from our IDEA of the world and who we are. When we question whether we can know for sure that any thought, or judgement of ourselves or events as good or bad is true, we find that we can't know this. Then, the thought dissolves, any troubling emotion triggered by the thought dissolves, and we are left feeling the peace of Presence, our true Self. In the "space" of wakeful, peace-filled Presence, no longer blocked by fears and objections from the conditioned mind, intuition can arise and be acknowledged.

[JoMalby]

Love, love, love this! ♥️ ♥️ on so many levels. It’s so true too that can we slip into that place of anxiety/uncertainty where we no longer notice we’re in it, and then it takes over, leading to all of the above and creating a loop. But noticing we are not noticing it is also awareness, to pause, return to ourselves, our intuition. Thank you Lauren, your words always resonate so deeply. Really looking forward to this!

[cindyr]

This is such an important topic! Thank you for covering this - I will go to see about the class.

[scottbaisden]

ITS SUCH A DELIGHT TO KNOW YOU WENT THERE... LOVE IT

[taketheredpill]

We don't trust it because our parents (Sensates) didn't listen to us when we shared our intuition.
We need to sit with the (usually) unpleasant realities our intuition is showing us.
This brings up DECADES of repressed feelings and frankly feels AWFUL.
It's like burning a 40 year old tank of gas in a car...

Actually, it's more like a 40-year old gallon of gas.
If we ride it out and sit with the unpleasantness then new and IMPROVED gas will replace it and life gets better and less painful.

[matilda]

The Bible says, "don't be anxious" and it makes sense even more now

[ivanaveltmeyer]

Where can I meet another infj? I’m feeling lonely.